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Thanks, I've worked out that the sheet of ply used as a background is leaning at an angle with the top further away, so the the camera flash has thrown a longer shadow at the top and made the barley twist look parallel. Mike.

This one is a little better. The real problem is buying a camera with a brain bigger than mine !

The camera really lies here, the barley twist has a pronounced taper from wide at the base to narrow at the top, but not in this photo. And now for the wine,

I think its possible to buy a bracket but that one is all me own work guv ! Its not pretty but the paint makes the welds look much better. Mike.

The bracket drops onto the bolt used to hold the blade guard and is secured with the nut that holds the saw blade in place. You can get a similar effect using a ply template and cramp but this is quick and easy when doing a number of cuts.

In past years it was common practice to grind your own cutters for one off jobs, this was easy to do when using the now illegal blocks which allowed you to move the attitude of the cutter in the block and present it to the workpiece at different angles. This was possible because the blocks had...

The above shows some of my methods of adding the mouldings. I prefer to make the dentil segments in about a 100mm wide strip and the slice them off as required, a cross cut RA saw makes the 3mm grooves. The larger box core shapes are made with a router cutter and a welded bracket that mounts the...

:P If you think Iroko blunts cutters you can't have used teak! the amount of silica in it varies but in the worst case the blades will be blunt and the timber being hammered in about two metres of planing. TCT knives are the only reliable answer to the planing of teak, That means it's a brave or...

My vote is for Iroko although the photos need to show a cleaned up section. I started my apprenticeship (1959) with the task of hand sanding similar bench tops for a new school build. Teak has been far to expensive for this job for several decades now. A while back I agreed to look at some...

My spindle is only 2 HP and I run a steel 125mm rebate block and 96mm alloy limiter block regularly.

If you have a look at the Whitehill catalogue you will find that there are cutters with limiters which cut both rebate and mould in one pass or others which can be run together with a 125mm rebate block to give any size of mould you want.

I usually fit edging with "Titebond 2" its only good for internal use but is proof against all the things on your list. The attached shows the edging material section I prefer, it gives a built in fiddle rail and covers the board completely, no need to even plane the edge of the boarding before...

If you are only intending to hang 9 doors a jig like this will take 20 minutes to make and cost nothing. This one is one I use for hinging roof lights to the frames on dutch barges. You clamp it to the door and use a 30mm guide bush and a 20mm diameter cutter. Mike.

The assurance that three hinges is the norm is wrong. If you were hanging a solid oak front door, three hinges would be justified to bear the weight. Internal doors are usually hung on one pair of hinges. Three hinges can only be used if the casing leg you are hinging to is dead straight, any...

A wax candle used sparingly. On machine beds wax furniture polish is my choice, the silicone sprays don't seem to be of much use long term.

It would be nice to see a bit of curve in the top rails

I have a Sedgwick MB which is difficult to adjust for same reason. The Allen key can be made to click from one flat to the next if I slack off the chip breaker bolts and just have the one at the far end holding the blade. The blade and breaker are then pushed back a little by the key rotating...

My dislike of the breadboard is not that iit is likely to destroy the top as the mitred clamp may do, but that the top and ends will be a different width after a few months in the customers house. I acknowledge that they have been around a long time but still don't regard them as an elegant...

In traditional cabinet work there are a few instances of common design features which do as you suggest, ignore the problems of timber movement. A table top with a breadboard end for instance. Or the beautiful looking mitred clamp end, skilled work which looks great when newly completed but is...

100mm drop pipes easily Cope with the output from my planer which is the largest amount of chippings made in most workshops. 100 mm blast gates are cheaper and more common in the average workshop and most machines in one person operations are fitted with 100mm outlets.